license clarifications
dvzrv opened this issue · 3 comments
Hi! 👋
On Arch Linux we have recently switched to becoming more specific about the licenses upstreams are using. For this we rely on SPDX license identifiers.
https://rfc.archlinux.page/0016-spdx-license-identifiers/
This project carries a GPL-2.0 license file but does not state whether this is GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later.
Usually, if there are no additional infos one would err on the side of caution and default to GPL-2.0-only, but maybe there is some discussion or piece of information I am missing.
I'd be happy about further input from your side on this topic! :)
cc @anthraxx (package maintainer)
Oh, I wrote this project many years ago. I didn't recall that it's a GPL project. These days, I'm more into MIT license or even 0BSD license!
For this one, I would suggest to treat "GPLv2" as "GPLv2-only". Do you want to propose a PR to fix the license?